What do the yellow stickers on Amazon parcels mean?

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Amazon uses its parcels for shipping. In addition to the company logo and the label with your address, you will often also find a yellow sticker with various letters and numbers. What does this sticker mean?

The yellow sticker has a large letter, and next to it are various small codes with different numbers and other letters.
For you, as the recipient, this note is rather uninteresting. There are other codes printed directly on the parcels themselves. These codes, such as “E5”, merely indicate the size of the package. The yellow stickers, on the other hand, are a shipping aid. The stickers bear the words “Driver Aid”. The numbers and letters code the buyer, the delivery address, and the products. A shipment passes through several stations in the logistics centre before being dispatched. The yellow sticker is placed on the shipment before the shipping label with the recipient’s details is attached. This information may not be given in plain text in the logistics centre for data protection reasons but is packaged in this form (source: RTL). This code is automatically read in the Amazon warehouse, creating the corresponding shipping label. This means that the customer data remains hidden from the Amazon logistics employee.

Amazon: What do the yellow stickers mean?
The yellow stickers can only be found on shipments delivered by the in-house transport service “Amazon Logistics.” Logistics employees can use the labels to identify the shipment’s delivery route. The information also indicates the logistics centre from which the order is being sent.

Only insiders at Amazon know precisely what information is behind the individual letters and numbers; after all, the data behind them should remain protected.